A conversation I had with my mum when I was fourteen has been replaying in my mind. The memory goes like this: We're sitting on a bench in the school playground. It's evening, it's cold and I'm cross. My younger sister is progressing faster on the cello than I am on the violin. She's just [...]
You may have noticed that my NaNoWriMo project hasn't been going so well this year. It's partly my fault. Even though I had another composition to finish, I thought I could juggle both projects and this may have worked had it not been for the awful cold that struck me down at the end of [...]
Yes, I'm doing NaNoWriMo again! For anyone who doesn't know, each year I join my writer friends in National Novel Writing Month. But I write music not words, so instead of writing 50,000 words in 30 days I set myself the challenge of writing 60 minutes of music. You can find my last two NaNoWriMo [...]
Rachel Graff 